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Headline: “Marking Palestinian Martyrs’ Day in Gaza – Al-Agha: A national strategy is needed…”

“[PLO Executive Committee member Zakariya] Al-Agha said that Martyrs’ Day comes at a time when the Jerusalem Intifada (‎‎Palestinian euphemism for several months of Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis 2015 - 2016 -Ed.) still continues, as a result of the continuation of the aggression, occupation, repeated attacks on our Islamic and Christian holy sites, and criminal acts that are taking place in the holy city [of Jerusalem] – the acts of murder, the arrests, and the acts of Judaization – and also as a result of the continuation of the destructive settlement enterprise. [He added that] therefore the struggle of our people continues until realization of the dream of the Palestinian state with full sovereignty, whose capital is Jerusalem…
[PA] Minister of Labor Ma’moun Abu Shahla gave a speech on behalf of [PA] Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, in which he conveyed the blessings of the government to the families of the Martyrs…He mentioned the last will of the three Martyrs Fuad Hijazi, Muhammad Jamjoum, and Ataa Al-Zir (i.e., terrorists who murdered Jews in the 1929 Hebron Massacre), [which they conveyed] the day before June 17, 1960 (sic., 1930), the day of their execution. In it they said that they gave their souls and their skulls in order to get rid of the occupation (sic., Israel did not declare its independence until 1948), and demanded that everyone adhere to unity and Jihad in order to fight the enemies who stole the land and destroyed the [Palestinian] existence.”

Text on right side of image:
“Your soul is not troubled by the imprisonment
It does not matter how long the imprisonment lasts
That is your path – the path of men”

Text on left side of image:
“Heroic prisoner
Ahmad Manasrah”

Pisgat Ze'ev stabbing attack - On Oct. 12, 2015, two Palestinian terrorists, cousins, Hassan ‎Manasrah (15) and Ahmad Manasrah (13), stabbed Yossef Ben Shalom (21) in the Pisgat ‎Ze'ev neighborhood of East Jerusalem, and then repeatedly stabbed Naor Ben Ezra (13) who was riding his bike. Both victims were seriously injured. Hassan Manasrah was killed while fleeing the scene, and Ahmad Manasrah was shot by Israeli police and hospitalized. Ahmad Manasrah was tried in an Israeli court and is serving 12 years in prison.

Headline: “Fatah branch: The occupation continues its violations in Jerusalem”
“The Jerusalem branch of the Fatah Movement today [Nov. 1, 2016] published its monthly report documenting all of the violations and attacks of the occupation government and its executive branches against Jerusalem and its [Arab] residents in the month of October 2016…
In the report is written the following:
During the month of October two Martyrs (Shahids) from occupied Jerusalem were killed by the Israeli occupation forces, which raised the total of all Martyrs since the start of the popular uprising (Palestinian euphemism for several months of Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis 2015 - 2016 -Ed.) to 260 Palestinian Martyrs, 57 of them Martyrs from Jerusalem. The two Martyrs are:
Martyr Musbah Abu Sbeih (i.e., terrorist, murdered 2), 39, from the village of Al-Ram and a resident of the village of Silwan (i.e., two neighborhoods in Jerusalem), who died as a Martyr on Oct. 9, 2016, after he carried out an operation in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Martyr Ali Shuyoukhi, a 20-year-old from the village of Silwan, who died as a Martyr on Oct. 11, 2016, after he was wounded by the occupation forces’ gunfire during clashes that broke out in the village.”

Image and text posted on the official Fatah Facebook page. The image shows terrorist Baha Alyan, who together with an accomplice murdered 3 Israelis in Jerusalem on Oct. 13, 2015.

Posted text: “Today [Oct. 13, 2016] is the first anniversary of the death as a Martyr (Shahid) of Baha Alyan (i.e., terrorist, murdered 3) from the occupied capital [of Jerusalem].
Baha carried out a self-sacrifice operation on a bus of settlers in the occupied capital city, which brought about his death as a Martyr, and the deaths of 3 settlers.”Click to view bulletin

Baha Alyanand Bilal Ghanem – 22 and 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists who on Oct. 13, 2015, boarded a bus in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood with a gun and a knife and attacked passengers, killing Israelis Haviv Haim (78) and Alon Govberg (51), and Richard Lakin (76), and wounding 3 Israelis. Alyan was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard at the scene and Ghanem, a Hamas terrorist who served time in Israeli prison in 2013-2014, was wounded. Ghanem is serving 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years for these murders.

Headline: “The Department for Jerusalem Affairs condemned the occupation’s crimes against the residents of Jerusalem”
“The PLO Department for Jerusalem Affairs condemned the ongoing policy of summary assassinations that the occupation authorities are carrying out against the [Arab] citizens in Jerusalem, the latest of which was its shooting of young Musbah Abu Sbeih (i.e., terrorist, murdered 2) on the claim that he shot at several settlers in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem, which led to his death as a Martyr (Shahid) at the scene.
The [PLO] department said yesterday [Oct. 9, 2016] in a press release: ‘The tension in Jerusalem and its escalation are a result of the policies and acts of the Israeli occupation, its ongoing violations, the systematic acts of Judaization, the settlements, and the theft of lands. All of these have caused and cause greater anger among our people, which defends its holy sites and its legal national rights against the occupation’s arrogance.
The [PLO] department emphasized that our people will stand with all its might against this Israeli arrogance and the organized terror being perpetrated against our people standing firm in Jerusalem, and particularly in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

Musbah Abu Sbeih – 39-year-old Palestinian terrorist who murdered 2 Israelis and wounded 5 others in 3 drive-by shooting attacks in Jerusalem on Oct. 9, 2016. Abu Sbeih, who held Israeli residency status, began his shooting spree at the Ammunition Hill light rail stop and continued to the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood. He was killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli border police officers during the attack. On the morning of the attack, Abu Sbeih was due to turn himself in to begin a 4 month jail sentence, after being convicted in January 2015 on numerous counts of inciting to terror and supporting a terror organization. On his Facebo

Posted text: “Today, on Oct. 3 of last year [2015], Martyr (Shahid) Muhammad Halabi carried out a stabbing and shooting operation in occupied Jerusalem, in which a male and female settler were killed (sic., the 2 murdered were both men) and others were wounded, and #The_rage_of_Jerusalem began to flare up in all of the occupied territories”Click to view bulletin

Muhannad Halabi - 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist who killed 2 Israelis, Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Bennett, and injured Bennett’s wife, Adele, and their 2-year-old son in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on Oct. 3, 2015. Following the attack, he was shot and killed by Israeli security forces. Prior to his attack, in a post to his private Facebook page, the terrorist referred to recent terror attacks as part of a "third Intifada,” and said that it was a response to Israel’s actions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and that the Palestinian people would not “succumb to humiliation.” This is a reference to the PA libel that Israel is plotting to take over and destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to the PA's portrayal of Jews praying on the Temple Mount as "an invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque."

In this cartoon, a Palestinian woman is holding a broom and sweeping an Israeli soldier and a religious Jew away from the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock.Caption: "Every year, Jerusalem gets cleaner" Click to view bulletin
Note: This cartoon was first posted on the Facebook page of the Palestinian National Security Forces on Nov. 8, 2014. It was published again on Fatah-run Awdah TV on July 17, 2015. The cartoon appeared again on the official Facebook ‎page of the Fatah Movement on Oct. 28, ‎‎2015, with the text: “This occupation will ‎pass Allah willing.”‎ Most recently, the cartoon was reposted to the Facebook page of the Palestinian National Security Forces on Sept. 29, 2016.

Official PA TV program Good Morning Jerusalem, interview with Muhammad Alyan, the father of terrorist Baha Alyan, after his son’s body was transferred to the family and buried on Sept. 1, 2016

Official PA TV host: “We are waiting for the ideas of Baha [Alyan] (i.e., terrorist, 3 murdered) to become common knowledge - Baha, the educated young man - and for him to become a figure and model for our young people, so that the culture, study, and creative ideas will be what motivates them to rise up and advance in life.”

Baha Alyan and Bilal Ghanem – 22 and 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists who on Oct. 13, 2015, boarded a bus in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood with a gun and a knife and attacked passengers, killing Israelis Chaim Haviv (78) and Alon Govberg (51), and Richard Lakin (76), and wounding 3 Israelis. Alyan was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard at the scene and Ghanem, a Hamas terrorist who served time in Israeli prison in 2013-2014, was wounded. Ghanem is serving 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years for these murders.

Headline: “A funeral was held for Martyr Alyan towards morning”
“Today, Thursday [Sept. 1, 2016], the body of Jerusalem Martyr (Shahid) Baha Alyan was buried early in the morning… after being held in captivity for 324 days in the [morgue] refrigerators of the occupation… Martyr Baha Alyan ascended to Heaven last Oct. 13 [2015], after he carried out a stabbing and shooting operation together with prisoner Bilal Ghanem on an Israeli bus in the settlement of Armon Hanatziv (i.e., southeastern neighborhood in Jerusalem).”Click to view bulletin

Baha Alyan and Bilal Ghanem – 22 and 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists who on Oct. 13, 2015, boarded a bus in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood with a gun and a knife and attacked passengers, killing Israelis Chaim Haviv (78) and Alon Govberg (51), and Richard Lakin (76), and wounding 3 Israelis. Alyan was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard at the scene and Ghanem, a Hamas terrorist who served time in Israeli prison in 2013-2014, was wounded. Ghanem is serving 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years for these murders.

Image and text posted on the official Fatah Facebook page
Image shows terrorist Baha Alyan, who murdered 3 Israelis and whose body was returned by Israel after midnight on Sept. 1, 2016.

Posted text: “The occupation (i.e., PA euphemism for Israel) is transferring the body of Martyr [Baha] Alyan on condition that [only] 25 people will participate in the burial, and that a fine of 20,000 shekels will be paid. May Allah have mercy on Baha and all of our heroic Martyrs. Glory kneels before you.”

Text on image: “Baha, O leader!
You and your friends – hold on!
Not much [time] is left [until the release of your bodies]
The frost of the [morgue] refrigerators
Will be melted by the warmth of the scene [of the funeral]
And the scene [of the funeral] is no less warm than the ground”
-Father of Martyr (Shahid) Baha_of_Palestine” Click to view bulletin

Baha Alyan and Bilal Ghanem – 22 and 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists who on Oct. 13, 2015, boarded a bus in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood with a gun and a knife and attacked passengers, killing Israelis Chaim Haviv (78) and Alon Govberg (51), and Richard Lakin (76), and wounding 3 Israelis. Alyan was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard at the scene and Ghanem, a Hamas terrorist who served time in Israeli prison in 2013-2014, was wounded. Ghanem is serving 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years for these murders.

Text posted on the official Fatah Facebook page, together with the repost of text posted by terrorist Baha Alyan on Dec. 12, 2014

Posted text: “In continuation of the transfer of the body of Martyr (Shahid) Baha Alyan last night (i.e., early morning hours of Sept. 1, 2016), here is what was written in his will:”

Reposted text from Baha Alyan’s Facebook page: “The 10 commandments of every Martyr:
1. I instruct the factions not to take responsibility for my Martyrdom-death, for my death was for the homeland and not for you. [...]
4. Do not sow hatred in my son’s heart. Let him discover his homeland and die for his homeland, and not in order to avenge my death.
5. If they [Israel] wish to demolish my home, let them do so, since the stone is not more precious than the soul created by my God.
6. Do not grieve over my Martyrdom-death, grieve over what will happen to you after I am gone. [...]
10. I will see you in Paradise.”Click to view bulletin

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Baha Alyan and Bilal Ghanem – 22 and 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists who on Oct. 13, 2015, boarded a bus in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood with a gun and a knife and attacked passengers, killing Israelis Chaim Haviv (78) and Alon Govberg (51), and Richard Lakin (76), and wounding 3 Israelis. Alyan was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard at the scene and Ghanem, a Hamas terrorist who served time in Israeli prison in 2013-2014, was wounded. Ghanem is serving 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years for these murders.

Fatah-run Awdah TV program Personal Encounter, hosting Chairman of the PA Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall Walid AssafChairman of the PA Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall Walid Assaf: “After the popular uprising (‎‎Palestinian euphemism for several months of Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis 2015 - 2016 -Ed.) that began at the beginning of last year (sic., it began in Sept. 2015) and continued until the first quarter of this year [2016], most of the public participated in this uprising and came out in a very strong manner. This was one of the waves of the popular uprising, and is also not the end of the waves; the waves will continue as long as the occupation continues. The Palestinian people will continue its struggle and its resistance.”

Palestinian terror wave (2015-2016) – Palestinian violence and terror attacks against Israelis, ‎including stabbings, shootings, throwing Molotov cocktails, and car rammings. It started in September 2015 and as of July 2016, 40 people were killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans, and 1 foreign worker from Eritrea) and over 500 wounded.

Headline: “The preparatory studies for the ‘Wood Badge’ began in Jerusalem – Martyr Leader Baha Alyan Course”
“Yesterday (sic., the event took place three days earlier on Aug. 24, 2016) the practical studies for the deputy [scout] unit leaders (preparation for the Wood Badge) [parentheses in source] – Martyr (Shahid) Leader Baha Alyan (i.e., terrorist, murdered 3, former scout leader) Course began at the Shabab Al-Eizariya Club in the Jerusalem district. [The course] was organized by the Committee for Training and Developing Leadership in the Palestinian Scout Association, in cooperation with the scout commission of the Jerusalem district.
The training staff is composed of several members of the Committee for Training and Developing Leadership: preparatory studies leader and Jerusalem commissioner Sa’id Atoun, [scout] leader Muhammad Al-Dahdar, and [scout] leader Mufid Al-Barq.”Click to view bulletin

Headline: “The preparatory studies for the ‘Wood Badge’ began in Jerusalem – Martyr Leader Baha Alyan Course”
“Yesterday the practical studies for the deputy [scout] unit leaders (preparation for the Wood Badge) [parentheses in source] – Martyr (Shahid) Leader Baha Alyan (i.e., terrorist, murdered 3, was a former scout leader) Course began at the Shabab Al-Eizariya Club in the Jerusalem district. [The course] was organized by the Committee for Training and Developing Leadership in the Palestinian Scout Association, in cooperation with the scout commission of the Jerusalem district.
The training staff is composed of several members of the Committee for Training and Developing Leadership: preparatory studies leader and Jerusalem commissioner Sa’id Atoun, [scout] leader Muhammad Al-Dahdar, and [scout] leader Mufid Al-Barq.”

Included with the article was a picture of terrorist Baha Alyan in a scouting uniform with the following text:

Text on banner: “Under the auspices of the [PLO] Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs, Al-Dawha Sport Club, and Al-Dawha branch of Fatah are holding the Mamoun Al-Khatib Summer Camp for children for 2016 between Aug. 13-22, 2016” [Facebook page of the Al-Dawha branch of Fatah, accessed Sept. 18, 2016]

Headline: "The [PLO] Supreme Council for Youth and Sports opened 104 summer camps"
"Summer camp activities under the auspices of the [PLO] Supreme Council for Youth and Sports (which is headed by Jibril Rajoub, Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee –Ed.) have opened, and this year there are 104 camps that are divided as follows: 40 camps in the north, 30 in the center, 30 in the south (i.e., north, center and south of the West Bank), and 4 in the Gaza Strip… In the Southern Council, Deputy Secretary-General [of the Southern Council] Najeh Al-Izza opened the Martyr (Shahid) Mamoun Al-Khatib Camp in the city of Al-Dawha in the Bethlehem district, and emphasized that the Supreme Council is focusing on the youth sector, as it is the foundation of the future and the hope of the present. One hundred and twenty boys and girls will participate in the activities of the Martyr Mamoun Al-Khatib Camp, and it will be run by the Al-Dawha Club."Click to view bulletin

Headline: “The Beit Anan Club launched the first Free People of Palestine Camp, Martyr Baha Alyan Pioneers”
“Today [Aug. 14, 2016], the Beit Anan Club , under the supervision of the Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs (i.e., which is headed by Fatah Deputy Secretary Jibril Rajoub) and in partnership with the Jerusalem Suburbs Education Administration, launched the activities of the first Free People of Palestine Summer Camp, Martyr (Shahid) Baha Alyan Pioneers, in the village of Beit Anan, northwest of occupied Jerusalem. This was part of a series of activities and summer camps that the council launched in the various villages and cities of the homeland. The camp includes 55 male and female participants aged 11 to 17, who will be supervised by 15 male and female [camp] counselors from among the male and female youth of the village…" Click to view bulletin
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Baha Alyan and Bilal Ghanem – 22 and 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists who on Oct. 13, 2015, boarded a bus in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood with a gun and a knife and attacked passengers, killing Israelis Chaim Haviv (78) and Alon Govberg (51), and Richard Lakin (76), and wounding 3 Israelis. Alyan was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard at the scene and Ghanem, a Hamas terrorist who served time in Israeli prison in 2013-2014, was wounded. Ghanem is serving 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years for these murders.

Headline: "The closing ceremony of the Martyr Muhammad Al-Shubaki Summer Camp of the Lion Cubs and Flowers in the Al-Fawwar refugee camp"
"The events of the Martyr (Shahid) Muhammad Al-Shubaki [Summer] Camp, organized by the National Committee for Summer Camps and the Lion Cubs and Flowers Institution (i.e., Fatah youth institution for young boys and girls) of the [Fatah] Mobilization and Organization Commission, have concluded... Distinguished educator Ismail Al-Shubaki - after whose son the summer camp is named, heroic Martyr Muhammad Al-Shubaki, who carried out the heroic stabbing operation at the entrance of the Al-Fawwar refugee camp on Nov. 25, 2015 - gave a speech as part of the ceremony. Al-Shubaki expressed pride and thanks for the gesture of memorializing the heroic Martyrs... Lion cub (i.e., member of the Fatah children's movement) Bassel Amjad Al-Najjar presented a short play about our brave prisoners. He presented his friends, the lion cubs, in a play about the suffering of our brave prisoners and the cruel attitude of the Zionist jailer towards our heroic prisoners."Click to view bulletin

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Photos from the play at the summer camp show children apparently playing the role of Palestinian prisoners, kneeling blindfolded and handcuffed in a row on the floor, while other children portraying Israeli prison guards stand aiming guns at them. In one photo, three children are lying on the floor, after having been "executed" by the children playing "Zionist jailers."

Headline: “Martyr Baha Alyan’s family rejects the occupation’s conditions for receiving the body of their son”

“Martyr (Shahid) Baha Alyan’s family refused to receive their son’s body under the conditions that were dictated by the occupation: The delivery of their Martyr son’s body in the presence of only 15 people, and his burial at [the cemetery adjacent to] the Lions’ Gate [of Jerusalem’s Old City] at midnight.
The Martyr’s father said in a press release that the family rejected the Israeli proposal due to the small number of participants [allowed] at the funeral…
It should be noted that Martyr Alyan carried out the stabbing operation on a bus on Haifa Street in Jerusalem (sic., he carried out the terror attack on Olei Hagardom Street, there is no Haifa Street in Jerusalem) last Oct. 13 [2015].”Baha Alyan and Bilal Ghanem – 22 and 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists who on Oct. 13, 2015, boarded a bus in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood with a gun and a knife and attacked passengers, killing Israelis Chaim Haviv (78) and Alon Govberg (51), and Richard Lakin (76), and wounding 3 Israelis. Alyan was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard at the scene and Ghanem, a Hamas terrorist who served time in Israeli prison in 2013-2014, was wounded. Ghanem is serving 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years for these murders.

Video posted on the Facebook page of Advisor to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on NGOs and Fatah Central Committee member Sultan Abu Al-Einein
The video shows a speech given by Al-Einein at a ceremony in Hebron awarding high school diplomas to students who completed their matriculation exams.Advisor to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on NGOs and Fatah Central Committee member Sultan Abu Al-Einein: “Most of our Martyrs (Shahids), gentlemen, were executed [only] out of a motive of hatred by the bullets of the oppressive occupation. They (i.e., those killed) did not have a weapon in their hands. Next to some of them they (i.e., Israeli forces) threw a knife…
The extremist settlers call to kill every one of you, and say that the murder of a Palestinian has holiness like the holiness of the Sabbath (apparently a reference to the words of Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu in July 2016 –Ed.).”

Sultan Abu Al-Einein’s false claim that “extremist settlers” liken the murder of a Palestinian with the observance of the Sabbath appears to be loosely based on comments by Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who in July 2016 spoke about taking action against terrorist murderers and said: “Revenge is a commandment of the Torah just like the commandment of the Sabbath.” He specified that by revenge he meant sanctions against them.

The photos show Israeli army forces preparing to demolish the home of terrorist Khaled Makhamreh in Yatta, south of Hebron.

Posted text: “Tracking what is occurring in the city of Yatta
A large number of occupation soldiers are around the home of the one who carried out the Tel Aviv operation (i.e., terrorist attack, 4 murdered), prisoner Khaled Makhamreh, inside the city of Yatta, accompanied by military bulldozers."

Muhammad Ahmad Musa Makhamreh and Khaled Muhammad Musa Makhamreh - 21-year-old Palestinian terrorists and also cousins, who carried out a shooting attack in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2016, murdering 4 Israelis and injuring 16. The terrorists ordered desert in the Max Brenner restaurant in the Sarona Market, before they began shooting at people. Muhammad Makhamreh and Khaled Makhamreh were both apprehended by the Israeli police, one of them shot and wounded before being caught and brought for treatment in an Israeli hospital.